Capitol Reef Cultural Landscape Report

VEGETATION RELATED TO LAND USE (continued)
(Orchard Summaries)

Current Name: Cal Pendleton Field

Other Name(s): Mulford Hay Field

Park Code: 0-17

Location: West side of the south end of the Scenic Drive, approximately 1.5 miles from the visitor center.

Tract: 1

Acres Cultivated:

Cal Pendleton Field

Number of Trees: 0

Date Recorded: March 1993

Historical Documentation:

Originally part of the Hyrum Behunin homestead, this land was part of a tract owned from 1915 to 1920 by the Pendleton family. Cass Mulford acquired 56.5 acres in 1922 and added another 88 acres (purchased from J. Jorgensen) in 1929. Mulford owned the 144.5-acre tract from 1922 to 1962, when it was sold to the NPS. This field was historically planted in orchard (ca. 1935); at some point later, Mulford converted it to a hay field.

Historic Crops:

undocumented

Current Crops:

Pasture grass